Affiliation:
1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital de Pulido Valente, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract
To investigate how adenoid hypertrophy and subsequent adenoidectomy affect pediatric airway resistance, we developed a prospective controlled study. Fifty children, aged 3 to 12 years, diagnosed with adenoid hypertrophy and selected for adenoidectomy, preoperatively had their nasal airway resistance assessed by active anterior rhinomanometry. Twenty-five of these children were subsequently followed up postoperatively, undergoing nasal resistance evaluations at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months. Another 25 children, without chronic upper airway obstruction symptoms, were enrolled as a control group, and their airway resistance was assessed in the same fashion. We concluded that the children selected for adenoidectomy, compared to the control group and before surgery, had mean resistance values up to two- to threefold higher, in both untreated and decongested nose states. Surgery was found to dramatically reduce airway resistance, but only in children under the age of seven. However, the postoperative values still tended to remain higher than the control subjects results. If in a significant number of children the operation failed in completely resolving their complaints, no preoperative rhinomanometric pattern could be found to specifically relate to a complete surgical success.
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